Hit willard yesterday with my son and his girl friend to see if we could get his girlfriend her first wiper,We dropped the boat in and it was dead,I left the key on from the last rip to the nelle,luckly there was someone with a jumper box starting a jetski and he came over to help me out,I got it started and we took a loop around the lake to charge it up a bit,alot of boats on the water fishing and seen a few caught when we were cruising,I wanted to try the casting again so we went to the north dike and I hooked use up with the rapala X-raps in blck back/silver sides,my son was the first in the water and his second cast hooked up,then I did just a few minutes later,in a half hour my son was kicking but and had 5 wipers to the boat,His girlfriend was trying but the fish didn't want to hit her lure,I decided I wanted to move down the dike and the motor wouldn't start again,luckly my sister was out there camping and ran out to jump start use,well I didn't want to go thru that again so we decided to troll,well that was a good decesion and his girl friend hooked up minutes after we started trolling,then it was fish on every few minutes,we had alot of short strikes and hook ups that got off,we took off around 4:00 PM,we caught well over 20 wipers.with my sons girlfriend catching 11 of them,I feel bad though cuz she looks like a well done lobster,OUCH!I didn't have my camera with me,but my son took a few with his cell phone I will try to post them in a little bit.
Location north dike,and I mean the north dike.hint.
lure was the x-rap.
all fish are still swimming.
later,fnf[cool]
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Sounds like a ball! I'll bet she had a great time catching those Wipers. Too bad about the sunburn though...that is a hard lesson to learn.
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She did,the bugs got to her preety bad too,but she was a trooper.and held in there all day,she also said she cant wait tell we can get up there again.lol
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I took the family out to willard last night as well. We didn't get on the water until 7:00 so we only got the last little bit of the evening. We ended up getting 7 wipers and 2 walleye. All the wipers but one were in the 18"+ range. All were caught on lipless cranks at about 1.5-4.3 mph. Seemed like every time we would get one one I would slow the boat and we would get another on. We had two doubles last night. I did see a brief boil about 8:30, it only lasted about 15-20 seconds but it was cool!
Kept a few of the wipers for some dinners but let the walleyes go. Water was wet to the touch!!!! It was 73*
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I decided to fish willard this evening and took advantage of some of the good information that has been posted on this site. Launched the boat at 4:30pm and started getting into the fish right away using #5 and #7 rattlin rapals in black&silver and crawred. Ended up boating 17 wipers and 1 16" cat fish. The wipers wher 18"-22" most being 20 inchers. I even had a triple double, that keeps a guy busy when he is fishing by him self.
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Did you catch the cat on a crankbait? How fast were you going if you did. That's pretty neat, I think of catfish as couch potatoes and have only caught a couple on cranks.
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I caught the cat on a black&silver rattlin rapala in 14' of water trolling 3.1 mph. I even seen one in the south marina crusing the surface when I was heading out into the bay.
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[cool][#0000ff]Where the water is clear and there are forage species like shad, channel cats become "sight feeders" and will feed at all depths. I have taken them on topwater bass lures in some waters. In Willard, I have caught hundreds on lures and many on flies.[/#0000ff]
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mgb, you rock. nice report and nice picture. sounds like you have your boat trained right. thanks for sharing [cool]
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